15 year old girl strip searched at Canadian school; Education minister defends practice, says it is OK if done "respectfully"; girl feels "violated and destroyed".

Quebec Education Minister Yves Bolduc said it’s OK to strip search students suspected of concealing drugs as long as it’s done respectfully and by the book.

“It is permitted to do strip searches, on one condition: it must be very respectful, ” he said at the National Assembly on Tuesday.

“There are reasons for which we can be obliged to conduct searches,” he continued. “What’s important is that we respect the law and respect the framework that was put in place (for searching students) and respect the person.”

Bolduc was defending staff at the Neufchâtel High School in Quebec City, who reportedly strip-searched a 15-year-old student last Thursday on the suspicion that she had offered to sell marijuana to her friend.

The Coalition Avenir Québec’s point person on education, Jean-François Roberge, called for Bolduc’s resignation.

“It was completely, completely wrong to say that it’s OK to force a teenage to get nude just because the principal thinks that maybe she has some drugs on her,” he said. “And I would have thought that the minister would stop this and say it’s wrong. But no, no, he said it’s good and there’s no problem with this.”

News of the strip search broke in the Journal de Québec last week. The student told the newspaper that her locker had been searched regularly at school for drugs. By her account, she had jokingly sent a text message to a friend on Feb. 12 offering to sell him “pot.” A teacher confiscated her cellphone, and the message was passed on to the school principal. After questioning, the student was escorted to a room and asked to take off her clothes behind a blanket.

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Remember in the good ol' days when you were innocent until PROVEN GUILTY? That was the basis of our system of justice. I can't even imagine what the foundation of our system is now. Remember when you could go about your daily lives in full confidence that you had little to fear if you were innocent of wrongdoing?

Those days are long gone. It's a new world and fear is going to be a big part of it.

SLAVES are stripped to remove their human dignity ....... STRIPPING was one of the first steps at the Concentration Camps. There was absolutely no reason to strip her except SEXUAL SADISM. It was a form of RAPE.

Bolduc is an ass. There is no such thing as "respectfully" stripping a 15 year old. Did the school have parental permission for this violation? It is then sexual violation of a minor and a crime. Where the hell are the "police" and why have no charges been filed? Society has sunk to desperate depths of depravity. Next we'll get the pedophiles claiming they were only conducting "respectful" touching and violations of our children.Bolduc is an ass.

Better to get some tax revenue out of what people are doing than put them in jail where they will be costing the state millions.There are so many PROVEN medicinal benefits to cannabis that not legalizing it is just simply inane. Besides who was it that got it criminalized in the first place? Oh yeah, big pharma, Bayer spearheading the effort IIRC

The sub-head is not true. In colonial times in America, the laws stated that it was illegal NOT to grow Hemp/marijuanna. All the "Founding Fathers" grew it and the declaration of independence AND the constitution are written on HEMP paper...

There is ample evidence now that there are many pedophiles in government in the US, UK, Australia and it would seem Canada. I guess they think the best way to be able to carry out their sick fantasies is to be in a position to prevent investigation.

Definitely agree with the guns.com analysis.I don't understand why we don't use nitrogen to kill them. It is painless because air is 78% Nitrogen so if you breath 100% Nitrogen your body does not recognize any problem. No gagging or suffocation reflex - just 1 or 2 breaths and then you pass out - after a period of time in the 100% N2 atmosphere your brain is dead and so are you - painlessly.

Safety measures would be needed. Nitrogen displaces air and is heavier than air so it can't be used where there are low spaces like basements, pits, etc or those will fill up with N2 and KILL anyone who enters those spaces, and anyone who sees them and tries to rescue them. Probably best done outside.Euthanasia advocates know a lot about the N2 method:

The tax and tourism will generate a lot of revenue in Vermont. Tourism will jump until the rest of the east coast catches up. States are finally seeing both types of green when it comes to legalization.